tnx Jeffrey,
I'm checking it out at the moment..
I will give feedback as soon as I have.

But at quick look, it seems that the magaraid_sas is installed, but not
loaded..

I'll dive further into it.
i'll let it know.. tnx again.. this was helpfull.. :-)


> Arno,
> 
> I think I know what is going on here. Firmware-tools tries to find
> devices in two ways: Dell update modules, and lspci.
> 
> It looks like you might not have a dell driver installed for your
> PERC 6. I am guessing this because the firmware-updates.log shows the
> device name as: "01:00.0 RAID bus controller: LSI Logic / Symbios
> Logic MegaRAID SAS 1078 (rev 04)" If the Dell driver were installed,
> firmware-tools would be able to talk to the PERC card through the
> dell update module and get the dell name - PERC 6/i Integrated.
> 
> Because firmware-tools only knows of the device through its PCI ID,
> it does not know the current firmware version, and tries to apply the
> update.
> 
> When the dell update module is run, it doesn't find any devices to
> update and returns no status: <?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="UTF-8"?><SVMExecution
> lang="en"><RebootRequired>0</RebootRequired></SVMExecution>
> 
> You should have a 'megaraid_sas' dkms driver rpm available to you in
> the dell repo. After installing that, firmware-tools should report
> the current version and not suggest an upgrade is needed.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff Mendoza
> 
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